Source: Reuters - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Country: Afghanistan, Albania, France, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic
Official asylum requests rose 17 percent to exceed 100,000, the highest "in at least four decades"
PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - France registered a record number of asylum requests in 2017, when Albanians topped the list despite far slimmer prospects of obtaining refugee status than people from war-torn places such as Syria or Afghanistan.
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